The Gary Null ShowGary takes on the real issues that the mainstream media is afraid to tackle. Tune in to find out the latest about health news, healing, politics, and the economy.

A new look at the Wakefield scandal in light of the illegal activities in journalism conducted by the Murdoch media empire in the UK – and a review of where the current vaccine-autism debate stands in the US

Guest: Dam Olmsted

Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter who is a former senior editor for United Press International and was a founding staff member of USA Today where he had severed as its assistant national editor. He publishes columns on health and medicine regularly in the Washington Times and is currently the editor of the Age of Autism website, which provides daily updates on the autism epidemic. The Columbia Journalism Review has called the site’s columns “some of the most enterprising contributions to the autism debate”. His work has led to the introduction of a 2006 House Bill by Rep. Carolyn Maloney calling for scientific studies into the vaccine mercury-autism relationship.

Dan, along with his colleague Mark Blaxill, is the of “The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine and a Man-Made Epidemic” – the most thorough book to date tracing the history of the autism-vaccine debate.

Debbie Coffey is a citizen journalist for Marti Oakley’s PPJ Gazette. She has reported on foreign-owned mining companies that buy ranches for the water rights, the mining of aquifers, federally controlled public lands that sell and/or lease land at $2 an acre to oil and gas companies and other public land issues. Debbie has also researched and reported on other abuses by federal agencies, particularly the Department of Interior and the USDA. The trail leads to the implementation of international U.N. laws by U.S. federal agencies that violate the Constitution and bypass Congress.

Over the years Debbie has travelled the Western states to witness the Bureau of Land Management using helicopters to round up our wild horses to the brink of extinction (off of their federally protected areas on public lands). She is currently on the Board of Directors of Wild Horse Education (www.wildhorseeducation.org).

Frank Schaeffer is a reformed fundamentalist Christian leader, who with his renowned father, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, was instrumental in launching the Christian Right’s anti-abortionist movement into the public arena. Growing up, Frank was fully immersed in the upbringing and Biblical doctrinal atmosphere if Evangelicalism, having befriended many of the most famous Evangelical and Reconstructionist Christian leaders before departing from the faith upon realizing the Christian right’s theology and morality rooted in what he calls “corruption and insanity.”

He has since been a Hollywood film director and screenwriter, and the author of twenty books, fiction and non-fiction, much which deals with growing up in a prominent Evangelical family and critiquing the theologies and politics of the Christian Right’s movement in America.

His most recent book is “Sex, Mom and God: How the Bible’s Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics and How I learned to Love Women Anyway.”

The National Resource Defense Council in alliance with the Physicians for Social Responsibility have recently released a new report analyzing and rating the high levels of pollution throughout the United States, primarily due to coal and fossil fuel burning. We have with us Peter Altman, the Climate Campaign Director for the National Resource Defense Council to speak about the report -- entitled “Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States” -- and the moves within Congress to strip the EPA further of its due diligence on air polluters and to remove further environmental regulations on the big industry polluters. The NRDC is a nonprofilt environmental organizaiton with over 1.3 million members and activists, lawyers, scientists and environmental experts dedicated to protecting the world’s natural resources and public health.

Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. He is currently the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign. Dr. Hudson has served as an advisor to the White House, State and Defense departments at the Hudson Institute, in addition to the United Nations Institute where he became a specialist in global economics.

Dr. Hudson has written several books and many important papers articles, including “Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of the American Empire” and “Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order" His website is: www.Michael-Hudson.com

Lisa Graves is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, the publisher of PR Watch, SourceWatch, and BanksterUSA. She previously served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as a leading strategist on civil liberties advocacy, and as an adjunct law professor at one of the top law schools in the country. Her former leadership posts include: a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senior Legislative Strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union (on national security and surveillance policies). Lisa has testified as an expert witness before both the Senate and House and has frequently appeared as an expert across the different radio and television net works.
The Center for Media and Democracy recently obtained documents outlining about 800 bills, vetted and approved by major corporations along with Republican officials, who comprise the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC. It has been discovered that these bills are designed to rewrite state laws and target just about every area of American life – from education, union and worker rights, civil liberties, corporate oversight, health care, utilities, taxation – all which favor greater independence for the corporate regime and their domination over the privatization of people’s lives.

Guest is Dr. Bruce Levine, a clinical psychologist in Cincinnati and an activist, author addressing the societal problems in our corporate healthcare system. He is regular contributor to Z Magazine, Alternet, Adbusters, the Ecologist and the Huffington Post. Bruce is a member of Mind Freedom International, and is on the Advisory Council of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Pyschology.

His most recent book, “Get Up Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite” is a thorough investigation into the psychological underpinnings behind the American public’s passivity and aura of powerlessness to stand up against corporate and political powers who are removing the democratic freedoms in the nation.

Mike Adams is perhaps the most important voice of the generation to have emerged in alternative medicine and public health issues. Earlier he was immersed in the common mindset of most Americans – living a high-powered life under extreme stress and depression and at the age of 30 was diagnosed with Diabetes type 2. After embracing alternative medicine and a healthy lifestyle, he cured himself in several months and has dedicated his life to mind-body medicine, natural health, researching the underlying causes of disease and critiquing the flaws in our dominant medical paradigm.

Mike now is the founder of NaturalNews.com and has written over 1,600 articles on health and critiques about modern medicine under the title of Health Ranger. His non-profit organization, The Consumer Wellness Center, and publishing company Truth Publishing are now leading education arms for consumer information and research on the benefits of vegetarian diet, supplements, lifestyle change, exercises.

Mike is host of the Natural News Hour on Progressive Radio Network every Saturday at 6:00 PM (Eastern time) and is founder of the Natural News.TV on the internet.

Guest is Christine Johnson who no longer has any strong affiliation with any AIDS organization nor Rethinking AIDS… although as a freelance researcher she continues to keep up on HIV diagnostic testing. She first was greatly influenced by the Perth Group paper on Western Blot testing, which had led her into years of researching the scientific background behind HIV diagnostic testing.

Frank Schaeffer is a reformed fundamentalist Christian leader, who with his renowned father, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, was instrumental in launching the Christian Right’s anti-abortionist movement into the public arena. Growing up, Frank was fully immersed in the upbringing and Biblical doctrinal atmosphere if Evangelicalism, having befriended many of the most famous Evangelical and Reconstructionist Christian leaders before departing from the faith upon realizing the Christian right’s theology and morality rooted in what he calls “corruption and insanity.”

He has since been a Hollywood film director and screenwriter, and the author of twenty books, fiction and non-fiction, much which deals with growing up in a prominent Evangelical family and critiquing the theologies and politics of the Christian Right’s movement in America.

His most recent book is “Sex, Mom and God: How the Bible’s Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics and How I learned to Love Women Anyway.”